Ravi B.

What is your agenda? The question is haunting candidates of Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) election very badly. All candidates of the DUSU elections have almost same kind of agenda.

Though, the candidates are diplomatically using the word ‘students’ welfare’ but when anybody or any group of students ask to elaborate the term they do not have much to say that appears like USP among the students. Candidates from NSUI, ABVP, SFI and others have two major agenda while they campaign in the day colleges- students’ eviction from the hostel on the name of Commonwealth Games and Semester System.

But in evening colleges both the issues do not work as evening colleges do not have hostel facilities for its students and no evening college has introduced semester system as there is no science courses in the evening colleges. “This is a genuine problem. But we can not ignore evening colleges because they cast their votes in cadre”, says Akshay, a NSUI candidate.

But agenda too not work in these colleges. Personal relationship matters in evening colleges, says an ABVP candidate. If seniors help votes can easily come to the candidates, he says.

But why the agenda is not important for the candidates? “Because, nobody has time to listen you. Moreover, candidates too have not much time to explain these as they have to meet thousands of students”, says Aprajita Raja, a candidate for President’s post. The best way is posters and cards so that students can remember your number and name during the cast of the vote, she adds.